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I've been following ya'lls pursuit of a BCS league w/ a lot of interest. A couple of points:
1-Are ya'll sure ya'll want to be in the same league as Teja$? Deloss Dodds is an old Kansan that's went fairly nuts playing w/ all that Burnt Orange money. If KU/Ksuck could get out from under the T-cups, we'd both do it in a heartbeat. We're just kinda addicted to that extra $10-15 million/year that makes Allen Fieldouse the basketball palace it has become. That ain't happening w/out those 30 million Tejas teevee sets.
2-Ya'll will be in the Big 12 soon enough. The question is who is coming w/ you. New Mexico/CSU? It will not be TCU. Baylor has made that clear and the northern schools will not allow anymore Tejas influence in this league. I've heard Tech making noise about their rivalry w/ New Mexico, but KU losing the Denver market is a blow to the Red Leggers. There are probably as many Jayhawkers in Denver as there are Buffs (including a real important one named Phil Anschutz). Losing that game at AFH West (ie the Coors Events Center) is a bigger blow than the rest of the Big 12(10) understands. It's a Jayhawker winter tradition to build a ski holiday around the Red Legger's visit to AFH West (ie Coors Events Center). Honestly, I expect Bill Self to start scheduling Colorado State just to retain a venue in that market. And on the backside, Teja$ and the rest of the Big 12 might feel like sticking it to the Buffs by replacing em w/ the Rams. Only difference between CSU Rams and the KSU Mildcats is one Bill Snyder and one Cotton Fitzimmons. An extra $10 million from the league can buy that.
3-Beating OU last fall really helped ya'll. OU folks here in Wichita think the world of BYU football. Most think that BYU would replace UNL nicely plus road trips to Provo sound much nicer than gawd awful Lincoln w/ its prisons and dreary landscape. Besides, for the last 10 years, BYU has played much better football than the Cornganstas.
4-Ya'll will like Kansas Memorial Stadium. 50,000 folks enjoying Arthur Bryant BBQ smoke beneath Campanile Hill. And this is KC BBQ. Beef. Not the squirrels they smoke in North Carolina and call BBQ. One of those great MidWestern football venues on perhaps the most gorgeous campus in the country straddling Mount Oread between the Wakarusa and the Kaw. I would suggest ya'll visit the Free State Brewery, however, ya'll have standards. Also, this playing on Sundays will not be an issue in the Big 12. Even the Tejan$ respect folk's standards. We're not the Pac whatever.
5-Ya'll will hate Missoura. Everything about em. Everyone does. Hard to think of a positive thing about Missoura. They are savages who once invaded Kansas and were only repealed by the Abolitionists, the Jayhawkers and the Red Leggers standing tall for the Free State. When ya'll join the Big 12, I regret that your young men and womyn will have to visit gawd forsaken Columbia Missoura. Just plug your nose and hide your eyes from all the XXX signs/fireworks advertisements/walnut bowl festivals you'll have to endure getting there.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou
1-Are ya'll sure ya'll want to be in the same league as Teja$? Deloss Dodds is an old Kansan that's went fairly nuts playing w/ all that Burnt Orange money. If KU/Ksuck could get out from under the T-cups, we'd both do it in a heartbeat. We're just kinda addicted to that extra $10-15 million/year that makes Allen Fieldouse the basketball palace it has become. That ain't happening w/out those 30 million Tejas teevee sets.
2-Ya'll will be in the Big 12 soon enough. The question is who is coming w/ you. New Mexico/CSU? It will not be TCU. Baylor has made that clear and the northern schools will not allow anymore Tejas influence in this league. I've heard Tech making noise about their rivalry w/ New Mexico, but KU losing the Denver market is a blow to the Red Leggers. There are probably as many Jayhawkers in Denver as there are Buffs (including a real important one named Phil Anschutz). Losing that game at AFH West (ie the Coors Events Center) is a bigger blow than the rest of the Big 12(10) understands. It's a Jayhawker winter tradition to build a ski holiday around the Red Legger's visit to AFH West (ie Coors Events Center). Honestly, I expect Bill Self to start scheduling Colorado State just to retain a venue in that market. And on the backside, Teja$ and the rest of the Big 12 might feel like sticking it to the Buffs by replacing em w/ the Rams. Only difference between CSU Rams and the KSU Mildcats is one Bill Snyder and one Cotton Fitzimmons. An extra $10 million from the league can buy that.
3-Beating OU last fall really helped ya'll. OU folks here in Wichita think the world of BYU football. Most think that BYU would replace UNL nicely plus road trips to Provo sound much nicer than gawd awful Lincoln w/ its prisons and dreary landscape. Besides, for the last 10 years, BYU has played much better football than the Cornganstas.
4-Ya'll will like Kansas Memorial Stadium. 50,000 folks enjoying Arthur Bryant BBQ smoke beneath Campanile Hill. And this is KC BBQ. Beef. Not the squirrels they smoke in North Carolina and call BBQ. One of those great MidWestern football venues on perhaps the most gorgeous campus in the country straddling Mount Oread between the Wakarusa and the Kaw. I would suggest ya'll visit the Free State Brewery, however, ya'll have standards. Also, this playing on Sundays will not be an issue in the Big 12. Even the Tejan$ respect folk's standards. We're not the Pac whatever.
5-Ya'll will hate Missoura. Everything about em. Everyone does. Hard to think of a positive thing about Missoura. They are savages who once invaded Kansas and were only repealed by the Abolitionists, the Jayhawkers and the Red Leggers standing tall for the Free State. When ya'll join the Big 12, I regret that your young men and womyn will have to visit gawd forsaken Columbia Missoura. Just plug your nose and hide your eyes from all the XXX signs/fireworks advertisements/walnut bowl festivals you'll have to endure getting there.
Rock Chalk Jayhawk, Beat Mizzou
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